Four people were reported stabbed and a suspect was taken into custody in a violent, 2 AM altercation outside a Capitol Hill bar.
Police and Seattle Fire were called to the Diesel bar on 14th Ave off E Madison to the just after 2 AM fight and stabbing. Arriving officers found a chaotic scene outside the bar with multiple people suffering from stab wounds in the attack. A fourth victim had left the scene but was located nearby.
Police also found the reported suspect at the scene and took the 36-year-old into custody.
SPD reports that two victims were transported to Harborview in stable condition with stab and slashing wounds and two people were treated at the scene for minor injuries.
The suspect was booked into King County Jail.
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This feels like an every day thing now. we can’t normalize this, it cannot be our reality.
Not sure what incidents you are referring to but haven’t covered an altercation like this in some time. You can see recent CHS crime coverage here
https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/archive/crime/
I think he’s talking about crime in general. It has been an every day occurrence….our home was broken into yesterday and a female friend of mine had her house broken into at 3am on Monday and was almost assaulted, a daycare was shot at on Monday, a CD stone business was held at gunpoint yesterday…
thank you!
feels like every day there’s another report of something horrific happening in the central district
Greg stop being hyperbolic and fearmongering
Data supports a higher frequency of violent crime in WA generally and Seattle particularly. 2022 saw a 15 year high. In September, Seattle’s 2023 homicide rate has exceeded the 2022 total.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-passes-grim-milestone-with-record-high-homicides
In consideration of that data. Greg’s perspective is not hyperbole; it is not exaggeration and it can be taken literally. Perhaps you see it as fearmongering, that’s a narrow perspective. I am sure it will change if you or someone you love experiences a violent crime in Seattle, like I recently have.
It’s likely you are just trolling, if so it is shameful. If not, it is absurd that we as citizens are not unified in condemned this pattern of activity as intolerable.
There are less homicides than the previous three years. And population has grown exponentially. So… wrong.
I guess you didn’t view the link, which seems to say otherwise.
Not at all correct. We have already surpassed the homicode rate from last year and it’s the highest it’s been in the last five years (on pace to double the 2019 total). If you want to pretend all is well that’s on you but don’t gaslight people.
The problem is pretending/implying/lying about this being some “Western Washington” or “Seattle” problem implying it’s those evil liberals unlike good “red states”. Not true. Facts are the opposite. Des Moines Iowa had a higher murder rate per capita in 2022 than Seattle.
But Iowa is cute rural and safe? Fox News doesn’t run stories daily about the crime and horror of Des Moines like they do San Francisco or Seattle. Perception vs reality. And at least you don’t live in the hell that is Alaska. What? “The most dangerous state in the US is Alaska, having the highest combined violent and property crime rate out of any state. Out of a population of 736,081, Alaska’s crime rate was 32.14 per 1,000 people in 2022, making it the state with the highest crime rate.”
But back to the hell that is Des Moines Iowa. In 2022 the Des Moines police handled 22 homicides…for a population of 208,734 (est). That’s 10.54 per 100K
Seattle Police in 2022 dealt with 52 murders according to their website…for a population of 762,500. 6.8 per 100K.
But if you’d ask 1000 people, they’d SWEAR Seattle was death central (“No street safety, no walkability. No transit safety, no transit accessibility”) but swear Iowa is cute and corn and pigs and a good safe red state city.
Also, Des Moines Iowa had a 50% increase in homicides from 2021 to 2022. Didn’t read about that in the media or hear about it on nightly news did you, just something about San Francisco I’m sure, sigh. Their excuse? No safety? Bad police? Defunded police? Nope. Just national trends, that’s what they say:
“Des Moines saw a big rise in homicides last year, but that the increase was in keeping with what was happening all over the country.”
https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/crime/des-moines-number-of-homicides-up-in-2022-compared-to-2021/524-41a11c2b-e2f5-48f9-829b-bdacb5d5d901
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2021/09/29/2020-des-moines-murders-iowa-surged-national-increase-covid-george-floyd-protests/5906980001
Yeah I don’t think he is being any of the sort. The hill is popping off in a way that I have not seen it pop off ever. There are sounds of gun shots every night and at least one assault every 2 days. That’s not the Seattle I grew up in. So… yeah… after dark Seattle is a problem.
I live pretty centrally in Capitol Hill & haven’t heard a gunshot in a while…where are you referring to exactly?
There was gun shots reported last night in the same location of this stabbing that was just the night before.
There is considerably less gun crime now than in the 90s. You must have just moved here.
All my life. Also what are you talking about. That just shot up the children’s learning center, and Garfield was just on lock down. Come on! Go be right some where else. Seattle is wild now! I don’t have one story to tell you about anything like that happening when I was growing up. This is in broad day light. Not at Oscar’s or Deno’s on Union in the 90’s and early 2000’s where most of the gun violence in the cd happened.
Being dismissive of the current level of crime is as insipid as being “hyperbolic.” Any empathetic person would see these recent shootings / stabbings as unacceptable, regardless of how bad it was in the 90’s or whatever.
Respectfully, let this pseudo – “if you can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen” stance on crime go. Being a Real Seattleite isn’t a contest of who can accept the most violence with a shrug. Just stop, please.
Why are we in Seattle so concerned about pedestrian, bike, and vehicle safety, hence our Vision Zero efforts to make all such activities harm free, but so dismissive of recognizing and addressing similar issues with violent crime? Wouldn’t it be appropriate to look at any violent crime as too much violent crime and apply similar energy to eradicating it? Why the reluctance to recognize that Seattle’s violent crime requires policy solutions, and that the whole thing should not be dismissed as attributable to population gain?
On Capitol Hill? No way. I’ve lived on the hill since ‘94 and it was a very safe place to walk around alone late at night back then. I did so pretty much every night.There was a lot of violence downtown, in Pioneer Square, and Belltown, but not on Capitol Hill.
I wonder if this was people who had just left the bar getting into a beef or just some rabble rousers who happened to be right outside a bar when they got into it.
Apparently no one is arguing with Seattle’s population explosion in mind.This is not the Seattle of even 10 years ago. Every metric I’ve seen comparing major cities rates Seattle as in very good shape. If the threat were major, we wouldn’t have the the people flood we do. I’m from Chicago. I have decades of reality to compare this against. You must understand, the Seattle you knew can never again exist.
And you must understand that hearing people say “we came here and brought our problems with us, too bad for you, get over it” isn’t making life long residents feel better either… an attitude like that will certainly just make more people more anti-growth…
I’m not a lifelong resident… but I have been here for about 30 years. I can tell you that whatever the crime statistics, how I perceive my personal safety is different now from then… When I moved in to my house this neighborhood wasn’t upscale. We called the house next doors the cracketeria because they had an obvious and busy drug take out business going on. Madison street had a stroll, even if it wasn’t quite like Aurora.. BUT, I rarely felt my personal safety was at risk. I was completely comfortable walking around pretty much anywhere, even at night. I still don’t feel like I have to worry about things like being mugged, but these days, there’s a lot more plain crazy people out on the streets – random stranger assaults, gun battles in busy intersections in the middle of the day or early evening when the streets are crowded.. There are things I hesitate to do now, places I don’t want to go and not just from things I’ve heard, but from personal experiences of being followed, being menaced.
Oh – and you are incorrect about the homicides… We’ve surpassed the number of homicides for 2022 and 2021 and we’re equal to the number of homicides for 2020, with 2.5 months left in the year. 2023-53, 2022 – 52, 2021-43, 2020 – 53
I had one son who was playing basketball and his friend was punched unconscious by another player in an unprovoked assault. The player who committed the assault was murdered on the court two weeks later. My other son was sitting outside at a Capitol Hill bar this Summer when someone decided to start firing bullets at a person in an apartment across the street, injuring one. This is not normal, and crime statistics show that Seattle’s violent crime rate, especially homicides, are rising dramatically from earlier levels. Is it as bad as the 90s when crack cocaine was ravaging the Central District? Perhaps not yet. But why not recognize the trends and take action before it gets worse than the 90s?
I’m also from Chicago several years ago and yes it’s not as bad in Seattle as bad as it is…compared to other places.
Excuse me.. that wasn’t you who said the murder rate was down… that was CD Resident
Can the same be said for the homeless crisis then? I guess we don’t need to worry about that anymore either given the population growth. Such a weird argument to make.
A longtime security person from Iron and Security reminded me of Q Patrol’s presence on the Hill in the 1990’s (https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19960708&slug=2338244) and their re-emergence in the 2010’s (https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2017/12/a-blast-from-the-past-q-patrol-resurfaces-on-capitol-hill/). He also remembered when the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence strolled the street with a more forceful presence than today, some carrying nightsticks in their nun’s habits. Although we still have the same precinct station, the numbers of police are far fewer now overall of Seattle (https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2022/07/mayor-rolls-out-hiring-bonus-to-plan-to-grow-seattle-police-to-nearly-1500-officers-by-2027/) and tend to stick to their patrol cars rather can walk or bike the streets. Perhaps a more queer presence on the streets is needed again.
Why is there no mention of the shots fired right around the corner from Diesel at 2:39 AM on Union?